Mae West Quotes

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.

Whenever you can, count.

You want 100% and 100% to make 200, instead of 50 and 50 making 100.

With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?

"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

My talent is numbers.

I am better at math than spelling.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.

Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.

I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.

Seeing there is nothing that is so troublesome to mathematical practice, nor that doth more molest and hinder calculators, than the multiplications, divisions, square and cubical extractions of great numbers.... I began therefore to consider in my mind by what certain and ready art I might remove those hindrances.

I was good with numbers.

I really love numbers.

At three, I fell in love with numbers. It was sheer ecstasy for me to do sums and get the right answers. Numbers were toys with which I could play.

I always liked numbers.

Numbers have always come easy to me.

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess